Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2004, 7:10 PM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2004, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Russell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 177 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2020 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2026 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 080010 TORICT KSC167-080100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 707 PM CDT WED JUL 7 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 707 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF RUSSELL...OR NEAR WALDO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * AT 707 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WALDO. RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * DOPPLER RADAR ALSO SHOWS ANOTHER TORNADIC STORM 2 MILES EAST OF GORHAM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE OVER RURAL AREAS OF RUSSELL COUNTY... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR RUSSELL COUNTY UNTIL 800 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3912 9861 3912 9886 3890 9875 3891 9850 & $$ /JAKUB NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 53 min |
| Jul 7, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 8:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Russell | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood, Woodson | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 11:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Woodson | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 5 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.